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In a blow to the Biden administration's effort to increase corporate transparency, an Alabama federal district judge has ruled that the Treasury Department cannot require small business owners to report details on their owners and others who benefit from the business.

Vice President Kamala Harris issued a forceful call for a temporary cease-fire deal in Gaza, while in Selma to commemorate “Bloody Sunday, where Alabama officers attacked voting rights marchers on the iconic Edmund Pettus Bridge. Harris says the deal in Gaza would halt fighting for at least six weeks, and also increased pressure on Israel to not impede the aid that workers were trying to get into the region.

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis suspended his Republican presidential campaign—ending his 2024 White House bid just before the New Hampshire primary while endorsing his bitter rival Donald Trump. Alabama Public Radio sought analysis on his political future following the GOP Presidential debate in Tuscaloosa.

Defense Secretary, and Mobile native, Lloyd Austin says he's eager to return to the Pentagon after being released from a hospital where he was treated for complications from surgery for prostate cancer he kept secret from President Joe Biden. Austin was released Monday and is expected to work from home as he recovers.

Both the White House and Pentagon said they would look into why President Joe Biden and other top officials weren't informed for days that Defense Secretary, and Mobile native, Lloyd Austin had been hospitalized. A Pentagon spokesman pointed to one reason: A key staffer was out sick with the flu.

A new candidate for the Republican presidential ballot has emerged. Samuel Ronan is the latest person to declare his 2024 bid for the White House. He spoke with APR news.

The number of candidates on stage is shrinking, but the fundamentals of Wednesday's Republican presidential debate may be familiar to anyone who has watched the previous three meetings. APR news previewed the event nationally for NPR on “All Things Considered” and “Weekend Edition Sunday.” Links to both stories are at the bottom of this article.

Republican presidential candidates will debate Wednesday within walking distance of where George Wallace staged his "stand in the schoolhouse door" to oppose the enrollment of Black students at the University of Alabama during the Civil Rights Movement.

The Republican Party's once-crowded 2024 presidential primary field has suddenly shrunk to just a handful of viable candidates. This group will represent the contenders assembling at the University of Alabama’s Moody Music Center on December sixth, for the next GOP debate.

Nikki Haley 's presidential campaign will reserve $10 million in television, radio and digital advertising across Iowa and New Hampshire beginning in the first week of December, a massive investment designed to give the former United Nations ambassador an advantage over Florida Governor Ron DeSantis at a critical moment in the GOP nomination fight. Both contenders are expected to participate in the next GOP debate at the Moody Music Center on the Tuscaloosa campus of the University of Alabama.